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Madison, WI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: RASCW and partners will host an ADU design competition to create affordable housing for older adults in Madison. The competition will focus on accessibility, sustainability, and affordability. Winning designs will be showcased and made available to residents, promoting innovative housing solutions.
Woodstock, VA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: Shenandoah County will hold a design competition to create pre-approved ADU plans, expanding housing options for older adults and those living alone. This project aims to help residents age in place and increase affordable housing in the community.
Jackson, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: The City of Jackson will host an ADU design competition to create three pre-approved plans, making it easier and more affordable for homeowners to build ADUs. This project aims to support aging in place and multi-generational living.
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Tempe, AZ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Improved wayfinding
Description: Over the years, Tempe has worked to become a dementia-friendly city. More than 1,500 of the city's residents have memory loss. To support these residents, the City hosts a weekly memory cafe. Caregivers can network with each other, and people exeperiencing Alzheimers and other forms of dementia can interact with each other and build friendships. Organizers hoped to make the building hosting the cafe more welcoming to participants. To do this, they improvided wayfinding onsite. The City installed signage with easily-understood icons, large print and high color contrast. The signs point people to classrooms, the onsite fitness center, the intformation desk and restrooms.
Mesa, AZ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: This project will create an artistic crosswalk and update curbs for ADA compliance near a neighborhood park. The initiative aims to increase safety and access for all residents, especially those age 50-plus.
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